Salah Niazi was born in Nasiriya, Iraq, and studied Arabic literature at the universities of Baghdad and London. Since the 1950s he has published poetry, essays, criticism and translations. He and his wife are founding editors of the literary journal al-Ightrab al-Adabi.

Recent articles

Two long-exiled Iraqi poets, after reading their poetry at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in the wake of war and a complex liberation in their homeland, discuss with the audience the legacy of a long dictatorship on their own and their compatriots’ spiritual condition.

Salah Niazi’s poetry moves between the quotidian and the eternal. He writes in both English and Arabic; the translations here are his own.